Film
2026 (Iraq, Qatar, United States), (Drama) (Arabic & English with English sub-titles)
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Starring: Baneen Ahmad Nayyef, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Sajad Mohamad Qasem
Member’s Choice: The Voice of Hind Rajab is a daring hybrid of documentary and drama built around the real calls for help of a six-year-old trapped in Gaza. Director Kaouther Ben Hania confines the action to a Red Crescent call center, where every pause, breath and tremor in operators’ voices amplifies the child’s terror. No on-screen violence appears; horror emerges from the audio—Hind’s pleadings and the devastating silence that follows. The rescuers’ understated performances make this a cinema of witness: uncompromising, compassionate, and insistently accountable. The film frames the events not as abstract politics but as breaches of humanitarian law—collective punishment, siege, and strikes that kill civilians—and refuses to let them be forgotten.
Essential viewing for anyone who believes film can demand justice by keeping a single, unsilenceable voice alive.
(1h 29mins)